Japanese Art Rock Band KAO=S released their new music video “AMRITA” on YouTube on March 3rd, 2018. The video is directed by Tomoo Noda, who has also worked on videos for GACKT and L’Arc-en-Ciel. URL https://youtu.be/ll7h77id6y0
“AMRITA” is the lead track from KAO=S new album “AMRITA”. The album producer, Kenji Nakai, has worked with bands including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty and X Japan. The album cover was photographed by Mikio Ariga, the official... Read More

KAO=S performed at the Nihon Matsuri event for the 80th Anniversary of Emigrant Japanese in Paraguay (80 Aniversario de Inmigración Japonesa al Paraguay) on October 15th at Asunción. 15,000 cheered on KAO=S’s performance. KAO=S arrived in Paraguay on the midnight of October 13th. They appeared on two syndicated Paraguayan TV programs on the morning of October 14th. KAO=S played their music in the offices of Paraguayan newspaper publisher “Ultima Hora”, which... Read More

Japanese Art Rock band KAO=S once more heads to South America. They performed at the “Japanese / Brazilian Friendship 120th anniversary (120 anos de amizade Japão/Brasil) ” in Sao Paulo Brazil in September, last year. This year, KAO=S will appear at an event for the 80th Anniversary of Emigrant Japanese in Paraguay (80 Aniversario de Inmigración Japonesa al Paraguay) on October 15th at Asunción. They will perform at Nihon Matsuri in Paraguay. Nihon Matsuri –... Read More

J-MELO had been showcasing new Japanese acts who want to make it big on the global stage. They’ve each started getting attention since the beginning of 2013.
Program audience had voted their favorite acts from July 3 to September 30. As the voting results, J-MELO announced top 10 of their “Breakthrough Artist Showcase 2015” like below.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/j-melo/nhkworld/english/event/20151026_breakthrough_result/
1.Amatsuki
2.BAND-MAID
3.Fhána
4.Bitter & Sweet
5.Rie... Read More

Japanese Art Rock Band “KAO=S” will release the online digital version of their new album “Dawn of the Planet Chaos” on the 30th of October on iTunes in 111 countries, and the high fidelity version on Japanese website OTOTOY on the 31th of October. Mikio Ariga, famous rock photographer, took KAO=S’s photos for the new album. He is official The Rolling Stones photographer for Japan and has taken photos for many famous rock musicians.
The new songs “Saku”,... Read More

Japanese Art Rock Band “KAO=S” will release the online digital version of their new album “Dawn of the Planet Chaos” at the end of October, and will release the CD in November. KAO=S will hold a live-show on the 20th of November at Star Pine’s Cafe in Kichijoji, Tokyo. They will play songs from the new album at the show.
KAO=S’s new album was possible thanks to crowd founding. KAO=S did crowd founding promotion from June to the end of July through the websites... Read More

“Hanabi Matsuri(Fireworks Festival), a special event to celebrate Japan and Brazil’s friendship 120th anniversary held on September 12th at Intel Lagos circuit in Sao Paulo, featured a Japanese art rock band, KAO=S. Their fusion of traditional-modern music showing shamisen, sword dance, Japanese folk over rock arrangement charmed a lot of audience.
After ending “Hanabi Matsuri” as a big success, the members of KAO=S sent out comments to worldwide fans after they returned... Read More

“Hanabi Matsuri(Fireworks Festival), a special event to celebrate Japan and Brazil’s friendship 120th anniversary held on September 12th at Intel Lagos circuit in Sao Paulo, featured a Japanese art rock band, KAO=S. Their music showing shamisen, sword dance, Japanese folk over rock arrangement charmed a lot of audience.
The temperature on the day was as low as 15 degrees, and it was so cold with drizzles time to time that the audience’s breath was fogged up. Despite... Read More

Japanese Art Rock Band KAO=S will appear at the “Hanabi Matsuri (Fireworks Festival) “ held in Sao Paulo on the12th of September. This is a special event to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Japanese and Brazilian friendship (120 anos de amizade Japão/Brasil.) The event will be held at the Intel Lagos circuit (Autódromo José Carlos Pace,) well known for hosting Formula One races. The event starts at 11:00 a.m. and the opera “Madam Butterfly” will have show... Read More

KAO=S has been actively performing overseas. And they announced that they are working on a new album and they just launched crowd-funding project for their upcoming album.
On June 5th (Fri) they had the first solo show in half a year, and performed 17 songs including 5 new ones.
On the day of the performance, Shamisen player, Jack played for the first time the Yomisen with Shamisen type frets, which he developed. And Kaori Kawabuchi, the vocalist energetically ran around the... Read More